RISK MANAGEMENT AND PROCESS IMPROMENT IN PROJECT BASED ON OPENSOURCE

Abstract

Reusing software components from third-party vendors is one key technology to gain shorter time-to-market and better quality of the software system. These components, also known as OTS (Off-the-Shelf) components, come in two types: COTS (Commercial-Off-The-Shelf) and OSS (Open–Source-Software) components. With OSS component, to use successfully, it is necessary to know how the development processes and methods have to be adapted. Most current studies are either theoretical proposals without empirical assessment or case studies in similar project contexts. It is therefore necessary to conduct more empirical studies on how process improvement and risk management were performed and what were the results in various project contexts